Forecasters Reference Workbook

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FORECASTERS REFERENCE WORKBOOK, color

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Forecasters Reference Workbook
CYAN BOOK
Tim Vasquez

2016 / 234 pp. / 214 blank charts
$38.95 / ISBN-13: 978-0-9969423-2-4
8 x 10" / Perfect bound / Color / Glossy color cover

Please note this is a reference collection containing numerous reference charts and diagrams, including blank charts. It is NOT a textbook or guidebook. Thanks!

Released in late 2016, Forecasters Reference Workbook provides operational forecasters with essential charts they need to complete the analysis, diagnosis, and forecast process. In today's meteorological community, the vast majority of information is gathered by computer programs and websites. These don't have the degree of fine detail that the vellum poster-size maps offered from years ago.

In this volume we collect all of the most essential charts in an economical color book and provide multiple copies in blank form. These include three forms of Skew-T soundings, along with hodographs, movement nomograms, and radar elevation tables. These pages are meant to be drawn in, reused, or torn out as needed. They can also be used for classroom assignments.

This book has been designed by a veteran forecaster in the operational meteorological community for use by other forecasters. And for hobbyists and storm chasers, it provides a useful reference and instructional tool.

Forecasters Reference Workbook is also the companion to our 2017 title, Instability, Skew-T & Hodograph Handbook, and will help you work through its material or apply what you've learned to your forecasts.

Contents

SOUNDINGS
1 Skew T log P diagram, 1000-200 mb (100 sheets)
101 Skew T log P diagram, convective situation, low level (1000-500 mb) (32 sheets)
133 Skew T log P diagram, full chart (1000-100 mb) (8 sheets)

HODOGRAPHS
142 Hodograph reference chart (graphical diagram for Bunkers Technique and computation of storm-relative helicity)
143 Hodograph (32 sheets)

STORM MOTION
177 Gamma mesoscale motion workchart (8 sheets)
185 Beta mesoscale motion workchart (6 sheets)
191 Alpha mesoscale motion workchart (6 sheets)

HORIZONTAL CHARTS
197 United States and Southern Canada (17 sheets)

RADAR
216 WSR-88D range/height diagram (5 sheets)

About the author

Tim Vasquez began a meteorology career in 1984 writing the weather page for a Dallas newspaper. From 1989 to 1998 he was an Air Force meteorologist and worked at two television stations. He developed the Digital Atmosphere weather analysis software system in use worldwide. Residing in Austin, Texas, he is a software programmer, a consulting meteorologist, and a columnist for Weatherwise magazine.